Willing to do I think is more accurate.
leadership to end the riots would be better
I keep seeing this faint condemnation, but never anything specific. What kind of leadership is he supposed to give? Governors refuse to bring in more manpower, Mayors are enacting $0-bail revolving door policies and directing police departments to avoid the riots, prosecutors are refusing to press charges, all of them eagerly demonize police departments when a suspect is not 100% cooperative. Trump condemns this mess.
They've been hyping the Cheeto Hitler for years, and they are so desperate to be right that they are setting up opportunities for him to 'prove' what a monster he is. But he doesn't take the bait. Allow them to attack a federal courthouse every night for a month before bolstering the regular compliment of Marshalls. Withdraw when the mayor of Portland agrees to stop keeping the city police away from the area. They whine that Trump won't stop the rioting, but he's not allowed to do very much unless they ask for Federal intervention. So Trump tells them they need to ask for help, and they spit back that they don't need his help. It really does look they just want him to invoke the dubiously-legal Insurrection Act so they can clap their hands and cheer that he's finally acting like the dicator they've always said he was.
And the media garbage fire of conflicting information and double standards has only gotten worse. The "demonstrators" are peaceful but 30+ people have been killed, there is no looting but buy my new book In Defense of Looting and looting is reparations anyways, and Biden condemned rioting and challenges Trump to do the same, "peaceful protestors" tore down/vandalized a Confederate statue of President Thomas Jefferson/President George Washington/emancipator Abraham Lincoln/Union general Ulysses S Grant/an all-black Union regiment/abolitionists/an elk, anti-lockdown protestors are "killing grandma" but BLM marches are fighting racism so we'll go join the public gatherings that we banned and small businesses must be shut down but I need to get my hair done because have to be on TV and we need to replace the police with community policing but when some teenager comes out to protect the community he "indiscriminately" fired at protestors and somehow only managed to hit felons, white people need to shut up so people of color can be heard but Silence is Violence, we need to paint BLACK LIVES MATTER on the streets to protest police brutality but we'll paint it in front of Trump Tower instead of a police department or city hall or something, oh and we're going to skip over municipal permits for those murals, and similar murals saying BLUE LIVES MATTER aren't the same because that's political whereas BLM is not and putting BABY LIVES MATTER in road front of an abortion clinic is straight-up vandalism.
holy rant, batman
the problem is public mistrust of the police and the government. a good leader addresses the problem, marching more police through the streets is an effective short term solution but is only a bandaid until real police reform is achieved. increased accountability, a national registry for complaints on officers, a mechanism to investigate problem officers and charge them or prevent them from being rehired, increased pay and benefits to attract a better workforce, ever more training to limit the use of lethal force and reviews of policies to eliminate policies that are used in an unfair way against people of color. what the reform will look like and how it will work, who knows, but it needs to happen if there is any hope of ending these riots. it definitely won't satisfy everyone but it will clear out most if not all of the legitimate protesters.
it looks like they are claiming that because there was a knife within reach of jacob blake, he was in possession of it and therefor lethal force was necessary. from what i understand, which is not much, this will probably hold up in court. that policy is used heavily and almost exculsively against people of color around here. its a good policy for being able to charge people in a car with drugs rather than having to let them all go free but its not a policy that should be applied to this case in my opinion. to me, unless he is lunging at the officer with the knife, there is no reason to shoot him. that is part of the risk of being an officer, placing your life on the line to protect the community, including those you are arresting, and they should be paid accordingly.
marching more police through the streets is an effective short term solution but is only a bandaid until real police reform is achieved.
True, although it's really hard to take "Defund the Police" seriously as long as they're making police presence necessary.
a national registry for complaints on officers
It's internal state affairs; I'm not sure Congress can stretch the Interstate Commerce Clause that far.
a mechanism to investigate problem officers and charge them or prevent them from being rehired
We have these things. Internal Affairs and HR departments. I agree they don't work all that well, but to my knowledge nobody has ever really solved the "Who Watches the Watchman" problem in a satisfactory, stable manner.
increased pay and benefits to attract a better workforce, ever more training to limit the use of lethal force
Not exactly on board with the Defund message, eh?
reviews of policies to eliminate policies that are used in an unfair way against people of color.
That is entirely on the officer. Every policy can be used unfairly against anyone.
he was in possession of it and therefor lethal force was necessary.
There are a couple stills of him holding a small knife as he's walking away from officers, who have their guns out after wrestling them off him. He then walks to the van and reaches inside at which point he is shot. As far as I'm concerned this was a failed suicide-by-cop.
the leadership to end the riots would be better but some money is more than democrats have been able to do.